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Originally Posted by nik-
He wasn't used by Zidane because when he was used he was bad. He couldn't be relied on. It's just really as simple as that, no matter how much people want to think that there was some vendetta, it was really just performance.
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I don't think it was a vendetta but Zidane clearly didn't like him, it's the same with reguilon, he was the best left back in la Liga in 2019 but Zidane never rated him since he was in the u16 team.
All managers have players they don't think works in their style and therefore are harder on them, add in bales injuries and the negative attention in the press and it was never gonna end well.
In those first 5 years though, he was apart of maybe the best club front 3 ever? The BBC were such a threat and from so many different ways.